It’s Saturday, and as far as I’m concerned, it’s the last full day in the year. We skip our clocks ahead tonight and steal an hour that will not be recovered until November and perhaps not even then (depending on what Congress does or doesn’t do). In any case, Linda G. Hill sent me to the dictionary today with her Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “mat/met/mitt/mot/mutt.” Choose one or use them all, any way you’d like in your post. Have fun!
Let’s see if David and I can have some fun with this. There’s no mention of bonus points, but I can’t resist trying to use them all (I checked with Linda ;-)
If we were having a beer, you’d be in a good mood.
“Good afternoon, Dan, Cheryl. The drinks are on me today, so let’s not waste any time.”
“Well, we have to waste a little time, David. I was opening a new jar of cherries and I spilled some of the juice on the mat. I need to wipe it up before it gets sticky.”
“You didn’t lose any cherries, did you?”
“Not that you would know.”
“A little bon mot at my expense, Cheryl?”
“Bon mot? What on earth does that mean, David?”
“A witty expression, Dan. I believe its French.”
“Well, almost.”
“What?”
“I’m sorry, David. You reminded me of a scene in a Star Trek episode. Do you remember, Cheryl?”
“Yes! Manhunt, the one where Lwaxana Troi met and fell in love with Rex the bartender on the holodeck. I love that episode, Dan.”
“You two are hopeless, you know that. I think you could describe everything in life as if it were a Star Trek episode.”
“That would be a Star Trek episode, David. ‘Darmok.’ It’s about a species who communicate using metaphors.”
“OK guys, here are your drinks. John Howell’s bourbon for David, seltzer, ice, and cherries included, and a Modelo for Dan.”
“Do you watch anything other than Star Trek, Dan?”
“Of course, I do David. In fact, just last night I was watching an old favorite episode of the Twilight Zone.”
“Still hopeless. What episode?”
“It was ‘Little Girl Lost’ from the third season.”
“I thought ‘Little Girl Lost’ was a movie about, oh, what was her name, Delimar Vera Cuevas, that’s it.”
“There have been a lot of books, movies, and TV shows with the title ‘Little Girl Lost.’ The Twilight Zone episode was based on a science fiction story from the fifties.”
“Let me guess, it’s about a bartender searching in the basement for another bottle of John Howell’s Bourbon and she gets abducted by aliens.”
“No, a little girl slips into the fourth dimension.”
“Same thing. How does she get back?”
“The dog rescues her.”
“Hee hee – ‘Man what a mutt!’ That’s what the physicist from next door says when Mack (the dog) brings the girl out.”
“I take it you’re familiar with this episode, Cheryl. I guess everyone should have a physicist living next door.”
“Yep. Now would you two like to discuss more great science fiction shows, or would you like another round and some food?”
“Any specials today?”
“I think they programmed the replicators to deliver French Onion soup and a side salad, David.”
“That sounds good Cheryl, but I’d rather mine be prepared in the kitchen by humans from this dimension.”
“Spoil sport.”
“Speaking of crazy rescues, Dan, I saw that you were watching and reading The Andromeda Strain version from the seventies. Did you watch the remake?”
“The mini-series in 2018? I tried to watch it, but I didn’t think it was very good.”
“It was modern. I mean how many people today would know what a teletype terminal was.”
“That was why I watched it, David. But it still didn’t do much for me.”
“Well, after the three years we’ve just lived through, a story about an out-of-control virus isn’t something I’m interested in.”
“Here you go guys. Be careful with that soup. The bowls are so hot I almost needed an oven mitt to put them on the tray.”
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